topic Re: New member ... in Visualization

New member ...

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:46:20 GMT

Hi everyone, I´ve recently discovered this forum and found a lot of useful tips and tricks that saved hours i would spend to find them out I´m a bit dissapointed that lightworks rendering engine is only briefly described in AC user guide, so i can´t wait for the Dwight´s new book - is there already a date of coming out ?

I´ve just graduated from faculty of architecture in prague so i´ve attached a sample from my diploma project - my first one done in AC 9.0 ..

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:58:06 GMT

It is great.
Did you have done just with AC9?
Your rendering with color is very strong.

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:24:04 GMT

Very nice work. The muted color does well to blend the real and rendered.

A pictue is worth a thousand words, you only gave us about 7 dozen. Please explain more about this project and rendering.

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:11:34 GMT

Yep, it´s been made only in AC 9.0 and enhanced in photoshop. I got the 9.0 just about three weeks before completing the project, but I was pretty happy with the result, especially when considering my low level of lightworks knowledge. The building is a design center for a czech car manufacturer - Skoda Auto, it´s proposed for developing new cars and prototypes, analyzing other manufaturer´s products and some administration. In the fron part of the middle "tower" is a big car lift that transports the cars to different levels and attracts pedestrians from outside.

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:15:15 GMT

another one ... with scamped photoshop job

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Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:16 GMT

this is just 9.0 (except for the car, of course )

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Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:45:10 GMT

First congratulation for your graduation.
Your rendering skill is incredible.
Ok, you have done with LW and color with Photoshop.

First of all it is very nice, how you can mix the real background picture with your architecture, so perfect.
Please send your work to graphisoft design showcase.
And now you young guy, please say your rendering methode with the background picture.

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:42:14 GMT

2samsung: Thank you for the nice comments I´ve already sent the renderings to the design showcase, I don´t know when is the next round ... I didn´t get your question about the background picture - I´ve rendered the building with white background and matched with the photo in photoshop - soften edges, erase parts with objects in front/behind the building and enhanced some details (reflection in water, facades, etc.). I can´t say a lot about the LW rendering settings in archicad - as I said, I had no time to learn any methods, so I´ve just guessed. I made it on a slow laptop (P4 1,6GHz, 256Mb RAM) , so I couldn´t have experimented so much. I also had problems with matching the desired color, the laptop´s lcd and the printer.

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:31:05 GMT

Hi welcome aboard,

This is a reason why I like ArchiCAD- that one can readily produce amazing vizualization with minimum effort.

And man I like the way you have merged the model with the surroundings, it's hard to believe that it was not a camera matching in ArchiCAD

Regards,

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:47:56 GMT

2Mbarouk: It was a camera matching in ArchiCAD I just rendered the image with white background ...

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:17:58 GMT

Your camera matching method is really very nice.
It would be guite nice, if you can teach here with some pictures, as Dwight alos does.
Give and take
OK?

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:14:37 GMT

Teach ? Me ? Ok, listen carefully : set the photo as a background and try to match it somehow with your model. Repeat 100 times

No, really - it´s easier that there are no certain points to match, as the building is detached ... there´s a box shaped building in the scenery (not visible) so I made a model of it in my scene, aligned the view and ficed it manually a little bit - ordinary method, I think ...

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:41:21 GMT

Hi Martin,

It's a nice trick - thank you. Will use it from now on cause if you render the background in AC you won't have control with it like what you did in Photoshop where you were able to make some features (trees) sit infront of the model (by erasing part of the image

Re: New member ...

Dwight — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:27:20 GMT

Other reasons to keep the render separate from the background is to allow for adjustments of the two components separately from each other to match brightness and color balance.

Re: New member ...

Steve Jepson — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:55:13 GMT

Martin wrote:
Yep, it´s been made only in AC 9.0 and enhanced in photoshop. I got the 9.0 just about three weeks before completing the project, but I was pretty happy with the result, especially when considering my low level of lightworks knowledge. The building is a design center for a czech car manufacturer - Skoda Auto, it´s proposed for developing new cars and prototypes, analyzing other manufaturer´s products and some administration. In the fron part of the middle "tower" is a big car lift that transports the cars to different levels and attracts pedestrians from outside.

how did you make the ripple reflection on the water ?

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:55:50 GMT

Congratulations, Martin!
Very nice building!
May you build one like it sooon! 😉

more,more

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:37:51 GMT

very nice, can we see some floors

Tks

Re: New member ...

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:00:22 GMT

2steve: The reflection on the water is just photoshop - mirrored object, distorted with filter ...

2kliment: thanx, i´m working on it

2spider: here´s a layout of the ground level